She Was a Trapper's Wife. She Waded Into Freezing Lake Erie to Save a Crew.
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She was a trapper’s wife. She waded into freezing Lake Erie to save a ship’s crew.
In 1854, the schooner Conductor ran aground off Long Point. Becker waded out to the stranded crew, again and again.
She brought the crew ashore. A trapper’s wife had waded in and saved them. Follow along for more.
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Verified Archival Sources & Bibliography
Every claim in this account has been fact-checked against primary archives and scholarly repositories:
- Wikipedia: Abigail Becker (reference)
- National Museum of the Great Lakes: Abigail Becker (primary)
- The story of Abigail Becker, the heroine of Long Point (book)
- Heroines of Canadian History (book)
- Chicago Daily Tribune, May 31, 1877 (news)
- The Atlantic, 1869: The Heroine of Long Point (news)
- Project Gutenberg: Canadian poetry anthology (book)
- Bellows Falls Times, June 4, 1869 (news)
- Kentucky Gazette, May 8, 1869 (news)
- Ontario Plaques: The Heroine of Long Point (reference)
- Schooner Days: The Conductor (primary)
- The Angel of Long Point (reference)
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